Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Q E P Co. Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to CIGNA, JACOB JAMES, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. CIGNA, JACOB JAMES is responsible for the pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is the same as the workload for this examiner, the progress of the portfolio is dependent on the resolution of this matter. This concentration allows for a focused legal approach.
The concentration of the workload within a distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the preferences and historical patterns of the assigned examiner. With the pending office action active, the legal team can dedicate attention to the specific issues raised in this case to ensure a favorable outcome.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 1 | 63.8% | +32.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18500206 | CARPET PILE SEAM ROLLER | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 131d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18500206 | CARPET PILE SEAM ROLLER | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
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